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Rita was named Director of Infrastructure Investments for Rocky Mountain Power, a Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, in June 2019. Prior to that she served as the company’s Vice-President for Wyoming, a position she held for almost eight years.

She is a graduate of the University of Wyoming with degrees in both Middle School Education and Finance. Rita received an M.S. in National Resource Strategy with honors from National Defense University, Ft. Lesley McNair, D.C. She also holds an M.B.A. in International Business with honors from Regis University, , Colorado. Rita has held a number of positions to include statewide elected office as Wyoming , Chief of Staff to Governor and both active duty and reserve assignments within the Wyoming Air National Guard. In 1991 Rita served her country in Iraq, Turkey and Germany and returned to the Middle East in 2005 as 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group Commander, Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. She was stationed at the Pentagon in 1996-97 as Strategic Planning Officer in the National Guard Bureau’s Counterdrug Directorate. Rita retired from military service in 2007 after 23 years in uniform.

Rita has served on the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees, the University of Wyoming Foundation, the University of Wyoming College of Business Advisory Board, PacifiCorp Foundation and the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors. Currently she is on the Board of Directors for Delta Dental and the Wyoming Catholic Ministries Foundation. In addition to major awards and decorations for military service, Rita has been honored to receive the University of Wyoming College of Education Outstanding Alumni Award, the College of Business Outstanding Alumni Award and the University of Wyoming Distinguished Alumni Award.Rita is married and has a son, Charlie, daughter in law, Jennifer, and grandchildren, Augusta Grace and John Charles who reside in Ellicott City, MD.